[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 84 (Friday, April 30, 2004)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 23667]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-9845]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 648

[Docket No. 040112010-4114-02; I.D. 122203A]
RIN 0648-AN17


Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 
Provisions; Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Northeast (NE) 
Multispecies Fishery; Amendment 13; Correction

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: This document contains a correction to the final rule 
implementing Amendment 13 to the NE Multispecies Fishery Management 
Plan (FMP) published on April 27, 2004. Because publication of the 
Amendment 13 final rule followed publication of the Electronic Dealer 
Reporting (EDR) final rule, Sec.  648.7 of Amendment 13 unintentionally 
superceded Sec.  648.7 of the EDR final rule, creating confusion as to 
which set of regulatory changes were, in fact, being implemented. 
Therefore, this document corrects the error contained in the Amendment 
13 final rule as it relates to Sec.  648.7.

DATES: Effective May 1, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Warren, Fishery Policy Analyst, 
978-281-9347, fax 978-281-9135; email [email protected]. Michael 
Pentony, Senior Fishery Policy Analyst, 978-281-9283, fax 978-281-9135, 
email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS recently published two final rules, EDR 
(69 FR 13482, March 23, 2004) and Amendment 13 (69 FR 22906, April 27, 
2004), both of which implement revised regulatory text for Sec.  648.7. 
Amendment 13 was under development by the New England Fishery 
Management Council, in cooperation with NMFS, for several years. It was 
originally anticipated that publication of the Amendment 13 final rule 
would precede publication of the implementing regulations for the EDR 
final rule. The preamble to the Amendment 13 final rule clearly 
indicates that NMFS would be issuing electronic dealer reporting 
requirements in a separate, future rulemaking (i.e., the EDR Rule). The 
Amendment 13 revision to Sec.  648.7 was intended initially only as a 
place-holder until such time that the EDR final rule was implemented. 
However, in order to ensure that the EDR final rule became effective by 
May 1, 2004, and to accommodate the 30-day delay in effectiveness 
pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, NMFS published the EDR 
final rule first, on March 23, 2004. NMFS inadvertently failed to 
remove the place-holder language in the Amendment 13 final rule to 
reflect the new requirements contained in the EDR final rule at Sec.  
648.7. Because of this oversight, and unless corrected, the Amendment 
13 implementing regulations will supercede the EDR Sec.  648.7 revised 
text. Therefore, NMFS corrects the final rule implementing Amendment 13 
by removing all reference to Sec.  648.7. This section will be 
implemented as published in the EDR final rule that published on March 
23, 2004 (69 FR 13482).

Correction

PART 648--[CORRECTED]

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The publication on April 27, 2004, at 69 FR 22906, FR Doc. 04-8884 is 
corrected as follows:


Sec.  648.7  [Corrected]

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On page 22946, in the second column, first complete paragraph, remove 
the entire instruction 4, including the amendatory text in instruction 
4 and the corresponding regulatory text, and renumber the remaining 
instructions accordingly.

    Dated: April 27, 2004.
Rebecca Lent,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 04-9845 Filed 4-27-04; 2:54 pm]
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